[jcadam]

My first exposure to the actor model was with Akka on Scala. After working with it for a little while, I thought "this is what OOP should be, perhaps I just hate broken implementations of OOP (i.e., Java, C++), rather than OOP itself." Heck, I like Ada95's implementation of OOP better than Java's.

I keep meaning to give Erlang a try, but just haven't had a reason yet. I do a lot of Clojure, these days :)

[justbaker]

If you like Akka/Scala, definitely give Erlang a try.

[mercer]

I can highly recommend Elixir as a pleasant entry point. I've been looking into learning Erlang too though, much as the syntax is a bit daunting.